Annabelle: Creation

Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker’s possessed creation, Annabelle. A seemingly innocent doll that appears to have a life of its own.

In Annabelle: Creation, following the tragic death of a doll maker’s daughter, Annabelle Mullins, he and his wife pray to see their beloved little girl again. Her spirit (or what they think is her spirit) appears to them and asks permission to move into a doll so that it can be with them forever. They grant the request but quickly discover it is not their daughter’s spirit in the doll, prompting them to lock it away in a closet wallpapered with pages from the Bible. Twelve years later, after they decide to take in children from a sheltered orphanage, the “spirit” is freed. The demon attached to the doll targets and possesses an orphan named Janice (Talitha Bateman).

We learn at the end of the movie that after Janice disappears, she ends up at an orphanage in Santa Monica and changes her name to “Annabelle” when she is adopted by the Higgins family. She grows up and forms a cult called the Disciples of the Ram with her boyfriend. This is where the first movie begins. Annabelle and her boyfriend murder her parents, who live next door to John and Mia Form. Mia hears the disturbance and calls the police, but Annabelle and her boyfriend have already made their way over to the Forms’ home. John and the police arrive and Annabelle Higgins slits her throat while holding the doll, her blood dripping into the doll’s eye.

As far as what’s in line with the supposed facts, the Mullins’ daughter’s death in an automobile-related accident is at least somewhat true to the alleged real story, but that’s where the similarities end. There was never an orphan named Janice who became possessed by the demon in the doll and she never later changed her name to Annabelle Higgins.